Table 1. Characteristics of the implementation of the National School Feeding Program according to reports of the operating agents from 38 cities of Rio de Janeiro.

Characteristic	Sample			Total	p*; power
	School feeding administrator	Members of CAE	Nutritionists
	n = 12	n = 45	n = 43	n = 100
Insufficient number of nutritionists					0.008; 0.80
Yes	5 (26.3%)	11 (57.9%)	3 (15.8%)	19 (19.0%)
No	6 (7.6%)	34 (43.0%)	39 (49.4%)	79 (79.0%)
No answer	1 (50.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (50.0%)	2 (2.0%)
Purchase of family farming products					0.080; 0.51
Over 30%	8 (17.0%)	17 (36.2%)	22 (46.8%)	47 (47.0%)
Below 30%	1 (5.0%)	13 (65.0%)	6 (30.0%)	20 (20.0%)
No answer	3 (9.0%)	15 (45.5%)	15 (45.5%)	33 (33.0%)
Purchase of organics					0.390; 0.21
Yes	0 (0.0%)	5 (45.5%)	6 (54.5%)	11 (11.0%)
No	11 (14.2%)	33 (42.9%)	33 (42.9%)	77 (77.0%)
No answer	1 (8.4%)	7 (58.3%)	4 (33.3%)	12 (12.0%)
Food and nutritional education activities					0.289; 0.27
Yes	11 (13.4%)	34 (41.5%)	37 (45.1%)	82 (82.0%)
No	1 (6.3%)	10 (62.5%)	5 (31.3%)	16 (16.0%)
No answer	0 (0.0%)	1 (50.0%)	1 (50.0%)	2 (2.0%)
Activity of CAE					0.009; 0.86
Good	6 (9.1%)	36 (54.5%)	24 (36.4%)	66 (66.0%)
Regular	6 (23.1%)	9 (34.6%)	11 (42.3%)	26 (26.0%)
Bad	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	6 (100.0%)	6 (6.0%)
No answer	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (100.0%)	2 (2.0%)

CAE: School Feeding Board

Values are presented in absolute and relative frequency (%).

Values with statistical significance are presented in bold.

* Chi-square test for association among categorical variables.